| Description | A compact form of the species plant with a better flower and fruit display. |
|---|---|
| Plant Type | All Plants, Shrubs Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 3-8 |
| Sunlight | full sun, tolerates some shade |
| Moisture | prefers moist sites, very adaptable |
| Soil & Site | prefers moist well drained, very adaptable |
| Flowers | flat-topped cymes consisting of an outer ring of showy sterile flowers and an inner area of inconspicuous fertile flowers, starts the end of May to early June |
| Fruit | Red showy fruit are pendulous berry-like drupes that persist late into the winter. Fruit is not very tasty to humans or birds. |
| Leaves | medium to dark green, opposite, ovate, trilobed, and deeply incised, about 3" long and 3" wide, with acute apices and a truncate base, fall color not dependable and only fair at best |
| Dimensions | Reaches 5-6 feet tall be equal spread, a rather loosely branched shrub |
| Maintenance | Occasionally visited by aphids. These pests seem to be more of an annoyance to humans than a determent to the plant. |
| Propagation | cuttings |
| Author's Notes | Not real showy as a young plant. The potted plants have few stems. Sometimes hard to sell at the garden center until they flower. This has been a very dependable ornamental shrub for my landscape plantings in zone #5. |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #03-The Hillier Manual of Trees and Shrubs (Hillier Nursery), #106-Viburnums (Michael Dirr), Classic Viburnums (www.classicviburnums.com) |
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